True, with the debugger one has to suffer the aggravation of having to prepend p or x to expressions if one wants to see the evaluated output, but in return one gets plenty of features like (off the top of my head):

Readline with history (this one alone saves so much typing that it more than compensates for having to type those extra p's and x's);

The option of paged output;

The Joy of x, including not only pretty printing of complex data structures (with optional paging), but also the ability to specify the depth the pretty-printing;